The alpacas
Pearl, Winnie & Rose
Our herd is small, expressive, and full of opinions. Pearl notices everything, Winnie takes her time, and Rose has never met a summer hose stream she did not appreciate.
Our story
Dreams are funny things.
Dreams can keep your head in the clouds or they can be the fuel that moves you into going places and doing things that you never thought possible. The latter is our story of how we came to be alpaca farmers.
We moved to New England in 2014 and bought a property with enough land to potentially have a small farm someday. After unpacking boxes and barely getting settled into our new home, we started on an adventure of learning all we could about alpaca, farming, fencing, fleece, and more. The more we learned and the more people we met, the more excited we got about the opportunity.
Someday quickly became today. In the space of less than three months, it went from a dream to a reality with an enclosed paddock and pasture, a custom-designed alpaca barn, and our starter herd of four beautiful animals: Winnie, Irene, Little Black Dress, and our sweetheart Pearl.
We not only survived, but thrived through the worst winter in recorded history in New England in terms of temperatures and particularly snowfall, and came out even stronger as a result. We added three more alpaca to our herd in the spring of 2015 with Rose, Summer, and Honkytonk Angel. We had a great summer together and eagerly awaited the arrival of our first two cria, baby alpaca, in the fall. The boys, Winston and Salem, were delivered right on our farm.
As our two young boys grew, we knew they needed some friends to round out their herd, so Avenger and Sterling joined us. We were a full house at eleven alpaca, plus our two tiny schnauzers and one super fluffy English Angora rabbit, Monty.
In 2019, we started the next chapter with a move from Massachusetts back to Arizona. After finding amazing homes for some of our herd, we downsized and brought five alpaca with us to continue our farm in a warmer climate, close to our daughters. Shortly after getting settled in the new location, COVID hit and so did the loss of two of our foundation herd: Dress and Irene.
We are now a small herd of three, and they are living their best alpaca life ever here in Mesa with Monty, Clover the Sulcata tortoise, and our two doodle farm dogs, Millie and Barli. Thanks for following our journey. We look forward to welcoming you in the future, and remember that dreams come true every day.
